04478nam a2200565 i 4500 33192 BD-DhAAL 20211121144449.0 180607t2015 ii a b 001 0 eng c 39060 39060 2013008860 9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226043388 (e-book) 9789350099902 ICU/DLC eng rda CGU DLC BTCTA OCLCO YDXCP VVS UOK NBU CDX RID OCLCF VP@ ITD BDX BD-DhAAL pcc s-gy--- HD4875.G95 B34 2014 331.4117 23 HD4875.G95 B34 2014 Bahadur, Gaiutra 1975- author 26192 Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur This edition published in 2015 India : Hachette book publishing, c2013 xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index. The magician's box -- Ancestral memory -- The women's quarters -- Into dark waters -- Her middle passage -- A new world -- Beautiful woman without a nose -- Gone but not forgotten -- The dream of return -- Every ancestor -- Surviving history. "In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a 'coolie'--the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother's story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages--traumatic 'middle passages'--only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women's lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora--from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next--that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity"--Publisher description. ENH STS International 33192, 33193. 1900 - 1999 fast 42912 Indentured servants Guyana History 20th century. 26194 Women slaves Guyana History 20th century. 26195 Women, East Indian Guyana Social conditions 20th century. 26196 English language. 42913 Brahmans Social conditions. fast 26197 East Indian American women Social conditions. fast 26198 Indentured servants. fast 26199 Slave labor. fast 26200 Women foreign workers. fast 26201 Women foreign workers Social conditions. fast 26202 Women slaves. fast 26203 Guyana. fast 26204 History. fast 42914 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 331_411700000000000_BAH 0 63490 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-06-05 STS International 798.00 0 331.4117 BAH 3010033192 2018-06-05 1 798.00 2018-06-05 BK 0 0 ddc 0 331_411700000000000_BAH 0 63491 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-06-05 STS International 798.00 2 2 331.4117 BAH 3010033193 2024-05-30 2024-04-25 2 798.00 2018-06-05 BK